Movie monologues, one line at a time
1,967 real monologues from 152 films. Play a line, pause, say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
- C113 lines
In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran...
V's alliterative introductionV for Vendetta · 2006A long cascade of V-words that is at once solemn and absurd, and impossible to forget. - C19 lines
I've gone over it again and again and again in my head
the Sting anecdoteDon't Look Up · 2021It drifts from military spending to a pop star's rudeness, then lands on charm. - C120 lines
Now, from the beginning...
Keys on why Guy wokeFree Guy · 2021He walks from the loop to the girl of his dreams, then hands the whole confession to Millie. - C19 lines
I, Francis MacKenzie Bledsoe, being of sound mind and body,
The will read in publicUncle Frank · 2020Boilerplate stacks until the bequest is disgust and shame. - C17 lines
We used to meet each other constantly once or twice a week.
A confession of secret loveThe Letter · 1940She moves from secrecy to self-disgust in calm, mounting sentences that chill the listener. - C17 lines
Now the one thing about Wall Street and this market is, for me, I feel
Dressing a bribe as charityThe Wolf of Wall Street · 2013The gentle tone is what makes the offer dangerous. - C111 lines
But, yeah, I was spying on her.
David invents how they metWe're the Millers · 2013The Converse and the spying are too specific to feel made up, which is why the neighbors buy it. - C16 lines
I cannot say.
The detective as décorKnives Out · 2019He won't name the client, then shrinks himself to furniture. Courtesy with teeth. - C117 lines
I think I know this man better than anyone here.
Juror Nine on the old man12 Angry Men · 1957From a torn jacket to a lifetime of silence, it turns pity into understanding. - C17 lines
Hey I m Blake Halls I own Fortico
Owner wants him promotedWrath of Man · 2021Hero talk first, then he is sent out so the raise can be locked in behind the door. - C17 lines
Oh, by the way, sir, have you heard that General Mireau...
Dax reveals the artillery orderPaths of Glory · 1957He lays out the case step by step until the general traps himself. - C113 lines
I am beginning to question your loyalty to myself and the party.
The leader's ultimatumJojo Rabbit · 2019It builds from polite doubt through swelling rhetoric to a crude order, and the mask slips at the end. - C123 lines
Everybody's running around here wondering when the bombs are gonna fall, and the fact of the matter is that the bombs have already fallen.
The sidewalk sermonSlacker · 1990It builds from diagnosis to threat, mixing big abstractions with raw street anger. - C15 lines
Years ago, before you were born,
How the villa arrivedDownton Abbey: A New Era · 2022Sixty years of a transfer told as if it were a joke she almost forgot. - C16 lines
Yeah, it's race-related.
Derek's race rantAmerican History X · 1998Each line hardens the previous one, building a bigoted case with terrible confidence. - C15 lines
There is an entrance which you enter, and through this entrance, manmade, there is a circular chamber.
Godbole on the cavesA Passage to India · 1984He describes a mysterious place in flat words, and the contrast is the point. - C110 lines
In my younger and more vulnerable years...
Nick's openingThe Great Gatsby · 2013He takes his father's rule, then admits New York emptied him, then names the one man he still cannot write off. - C111 lines
Now, I want you to imagine a character.
Fletcher's film speechThe Gentlemen · 2020He turns an extortion into a film shoot and the listener into his actor. - C17 lines
In earlier years,
The refugee's closing wordsThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943He revises his own honesty step by step and lands on plain homesickness as the real reason. - C18 lines
I hate to be considered...
The lawyer on being called gullibleThe Thin Blue Line · 1988She admits the weakness, then answers it with evidence, turning an insult into an argument. - C15 lines
Andy, in many ways, was someone we all knew didn't have a strong moral compass.
Narrator lays out the setupEnron: The Smartest Guys in the Room · 2005It judges him, quotes the plan, then recasts his help as a trap. - C110 lines
Play it cool!
Orders to play it coolNational Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022She talks herself from thrill down to a fake stumble, so he will relax and talk too much. - C17 lines
My lord, when you went onward on this ended action,
Claudio's confessionMuch Ado About Nothing · 1993He traces his feeling from a soldier's glance to a room full of desires, admitting the truth without a single boast. - C17 lines
Well, they're kids, you know.
He talks the clock to deathSpotlight · 2015Kids, shame, tough streets: he stacks reasons they stay silent until the law has already closed.